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by yannis 17y ago
To determine really what people want you need to be the proto USER, you need to understand the needs in solving a problem and what the outcome should be. Great software ideas that stood the test of time were mostly developed by someone that
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by yannis 17y ago
Users do not generally want less. It is not unusual in Corporations to actually compare features before a buying decision and there is always a strong perception that the software has more value if it has more features. It also ensures that
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by yannis 17y ago
Assuming the rest of the world will not react. The 'exporters' will have a problem and since now they will import less dollars their own currencies will re-adjust otherwise the US will start becoming an exporter of physical goods, industry
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This is what happens when your mother in law uses IE(crunchgear.com)
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by yannis 17y ago
Good if it ever happens I will get a good night's sleep!
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by yannis 17y ago
It can have a catastrophic effect on the web. Javascript validation would not be able to handle all the digits. I wonder how the Zimbabweans handled it? Seriously don't worry. It will have to adjust sometimes to reflect the real economy and
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by yannis 17y ago
Looks very interesting. I have downloaded it. Pity about the Collecta API limit though.
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by yannis 17y ago
(01) Pixel ruler has been with me for a couple of years http://www.mioplanet.com/products/pixelruler/index.htm (02) Reverse image search, good if you sitting with a hardisk full of images and want to use some on your blog http://tineye.c
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by yannis 17y ago
I love Maths, but this one got me. I admit publicly it is beyond me. When I was small my grand mother used to tell me this story: One night as the priest was lying with his wife, he said, ‘Wife, if you love me, get up and light a candle, th
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by yannis 17y ago
To make a general purpose site builder for estate agents, florists, lawyers etc.. is not that difficult. To make a general purpose web application builder is a hard problem. You need to abstract 'a general business' and subclass as you d
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by yannis 17y ago
They are and I agree it takes forever .. but that is mastering, maybe not 10 years but +- 10 000 lines of code before you master it. Java is not a beautiful language! I find the language libraries quite verbose and difficult to memorize. Br
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by yannis 17y ago
Clever! How do you add your properties and methods? Another clever trick?
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by yannis 17y ago
Thanks for sharing your rule of thumb. I have observed that inevitably most objects/functions require three 'groups' of variables, more or less I use this pattern and I would appreciate your thoughts. - Defaults: Must be defined within
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by yannis 17y ago
Or rule of thumb, you can write a significant amount of code in the language: (a) without reference to the web or your reference books. (b) with a minimum amount of syntax errors
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by yannis 17y ago
With Chrome, it only started when I used enter. Nice demo of what one can do with JavaScript and modern browsers. As other people mentioned, flash still wins, but I view this as very impressive. The code needs quite a bit of polish, but as
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by yannis 17y ago
Nothing comes to mind on written words, however, last year our HR phoned our sub-continent recruiting agent to arrange 50 tilers for a construction project in the Gulf. Three months later they all arrived, but none of them could lay a singl
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by yannis 17y ago
Yes they did sometime in the 60's. I was actually involved with research in the early eighties where one option for an artificial heart (not a pace-maker) was to use a tiny Stirling Engine powered by an isotope heat source. The general publ
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by yannis 17y ago
>An astonishing number of out-of-print books are available used through Abebooks and Amazon. The are but sometimes, I just want to read them not 'collect' them. Try the following url for some prices! http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sea
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by yannis 17y ago
Sergey Brin makes a convincing case: >The agreement limits consumer choice in out-of-print books about as much as it limits consumer choice in unicorns. Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice
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The Tao of programming (seeingwithc.org)
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by yannis 17y ago
Very well written! I miss terribly receiving real letters (the only letters that come through the post these days are bills).
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by yannis 17y ago
It is all done with CSS. Changing removing elements from the print css. When you done the old, javascript .click(function () { window.print(); } By the way they have used jQuery. Three cheers very well done!
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by yannis 17y ago
Full book (to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2010) at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/
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In Nomine Patris et Felis(slate.com)
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by yannis 17y ago
You can check if native JSON is available by: if (typeof(JSON) === 'object') { alert('native JSON may be available.'); } Three major browsers already include support for native JSON parsing: IE8, Firefox 3.5, a
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by yannis 17y ago
My wife had almost the same accident a few days ago on a holiday to Cyprus. Personally by now I am very good at being 'bi-directional?'. If there is a lot of traffic there is no problem driving at any direction. However, some years back wh
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Could the UK drive on the right?(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by yannis 17y ago|4 comments
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by yannis 17y ago
I like the looks of it. I just couldn't find anything else than restaurants? Did I miss something? How about a tourist coming to Bangkok any places of interest?
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by yannis 17y ago
Agreed is a very good article, especially advocating you focus on the right targets rather than items on to-do lists, which went well with me as I don't use them. >It is very appealing to figure out how to squeeze more out of each 24
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by yannis 17y ago
Pity! From the Mendehall Order of April 5, 1893 ... such action will also have the great advantage of putting us in direct relation for our weights and measures with all civilized nations, most of which have adopted the metric system for ex

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